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The website was actively developed until 2010. There are plenty of variants of this website, as it is open source and can be downloaded and edited by everyone. | The website was actively developed until 2010. There are plenty of variants of this website, as it is open source and can be downloaded and edited by everyone. | ||
=='''Content'''== | =='''Content'''== | ||
When visiting the original website, | When visiting the original website, the [[Goatse]] Image is shown and then it will display one or more shock images which are usually pornographic and weird pictures, or horrifying medical photographs from Wikipedia along with an extremely loud looped sound of a man screaming "''HEY EVERYBODY, I'M LOOKING AT GAY PORNO!''" in order to alert people near you. A script on the website will also try to open infinite tabs and massively use the "mailto" and "callto" function, intending to cause the user's computer to freeze. | ||
===Variants=== | ===Variants=== | ||
This website uses browser exploits and tricks like the 'onmouseover' and 'onclick' functions to ignore pop-up blockers and spawn windows containing shock | This website uses browser exploits and tricks like the 'onmouseover' and 'onclick' functions to ignore pop-up blockers and spawn windows containing shock images moving around fast. | ||
Some people say that there were variants containing actual malware, but this could never be proved. Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, and other IE-based browsers are known to handle the website very poorly and may cause the entire device to crash. | Some people say that there were variants containing actual malware, but this could never be proved. Browsers such as Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, and other IE-based browsers are known to handle the website very poorly and may cause the entire device to crash. | ||
